"More About Thimbles" Reference Book Vol 2 * by William & Magdalena Isbister

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"More About Thimbles" Reference Book Vol 2
by William & Magdalena Isbister
This excellent book by William and Magdalena Isbister is the second volume of their "More About Thimbles" series. The authors have put together many years of serious thimble research into these works. The majority of this volume deals with French silver thimbles in great detail. It depicts all of the silver French fable and pictorial thimbles of the late 19th and early 20th century
and has in depth information about the hallmarks and the makers with all of their marks
. Some German silver thimbles are covered as well as the Nürnberg thimble makers and their history.
There is loads of useful and practical information as well as hundreds of pictures. This book is soft cover, 209 pages and measures 8" by 10". It was published in 2015.
This is a brand new copy and the ISBN # is 978-1-36-480641-5.
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